341: The Spiritual Practice of Loving Anyway

The Next Right Thing

Emily P. Freeman

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Fall schedules are in full swing, but beneath the surface of all your activity, perhaps you're concerned about how the choices you're making now will impact your life in the future. And not only your life, but also the lives of those whom you care about.

When we meet at the crossroads of core values or belief systems, do we engage or retreat? When we have lost something or someone and we become acutely aware of the risk of trying again, how can we move forward? When we have that moment of clarity and realize that this conversation, this relationship, the situation, is never going to change or that it's changed beyond recognition, what is our next right thing? This week, we're exploring the simple practice of loving anyway. Listen in.

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0:00.0	I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to the next right thing. You're listening to
0:04.4	episode 341. This is a podcast about making decisions but also about
0:11.2	making a life. If you struggle with decision fatigue, chronic
0:15.1	hesitation, or if you just need a few minutes away from the constant stream of
0:19.4	information and the sometimes delightful but distracting hum of entertainment, you're in the right place for discerning your next right thing.
0:27.0	I'm an author, a spiritual director, and an occasional workshop leader.
0:32.0	I live in North Carolina with my family. and an occasional workshop leader.
0:32.6	I live in North Carolina with my family and through my work I've helped thousands
0:36.5	of spiritually thoughtful people overcome decision fatigue so that they can discern their next
0:42.3	right thing in faith, work, and life.
0:45.0	Our fall schedules are in full swing, but beneath the surface of all our activity,
0:51.0	perhaps you're concerned about how the choices you're making now will impact
0:55.4	your life in the future and not only your life, but also the lives of those whom you
1:00.3	care about. When we meet at the crossroads of core values or belief systems, do we engage or retreat?
1:09.6	When we have lost something or someone and we become acutely aware of the risk of trying again.
1:16.4	How can we move forward?
1:18.4	When we have that moment of clarity and realize that this conversation, this relationship, this situation is never going to change,
1:26.0	or that it's changed beyond recognition, what is our next right thing?
1:31.0	This week, we're exploring the simple practice of loving anyway.
1:36.0	Listen in. Over the last year I've slowly let go of the habit of reading before bed.
1:50.0	It happened gradually and was a mix of a lot of things.
1:53.4	Like when I started needing reading glasses to read, I would forget them downstairs half the time
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